Not so sure about the 'karma system' thing. I need to know a bit about it if slang.
Saying that ratings, including one star ratings which promote censorship to be a form of "expression" is like saying the act of censorship is a form of "expression".
It also dictates labels over other people's speech.
For the sake of comments, it would be equally fair of any legally allowed comments can be the thing any user can do maybe without ratings. Ratings like this over people's comments provides other people's opinions over other people's opinion which damages equal expression in many cases, especially when the effect of rating literally forces the other people's expression to be folded.. I think this is bad for many legally protected speech comments.
Not so sure about the 'karma system' thing. I need to know a bit about it if slang.
Saying that ratings, including one star ratings which promote censorship to be a form of "expression" is like saying the act of censorship is a form of "expression".
It also dictates labels over other people's speech.
For the sake of comments, it would be equally fair of any legally allowed comments can be the thing any user can do maybe without ratings. Ratings like this over people's comments provides other people's opinions over other people's opinion which damages equal expression in many cases, especially when the effect of rating literally forces the other people's expression to be folded.. I think this is bad for many legally protected speech comments.